RefMan

RefMan or Reference Manager, is bibliographic software originally founded by Research Information Systems, then combined with EndNote and ProCite to form ISI ResearchSoft in 1999.^[1] A standardized tagging format was developed by Research Information Systems for use in references.^[2][3]

Format Information

The RIS format is a plain text line based tagging format.^[4][5]
Format begins with the tag "TY" and ends with tag "ER" ^[6] Format also has a 1MB file size limit.

Sample

An example of the RIS tagging structure.^[7]

TY  - JOUR
AU  - Shannon, Claude E.
PY  - 1948
DA  - July
TI  - A Mathematical Theory of Communication
T2  - Bell System Technical Journal
SP  - 379
EP  - 423
VL  - 27
ER  - 

Sample Files

• Sample RIS citation download

References

1. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20010805015049/http://www.refman.com/rmabout.asp
2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIS_(file_format)
3. ↑ https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/data_formats#ris
4. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20110930172154/http://www.refman.com/support/risformat_intro.asp
5. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20150909181030/http://refman.com/sites/rm/files/m/direct_export_ris.pdf
6. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20010627143207/http://www.refman.com/support/risformat_tags_01.asp
7. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIS_(file_format)#Example_record